Who's who in #globaldev: November 2019 appointments

IDLO Jan Beagle is the next director-general of the International Development Law Organization. She starts her term in January 2020. Beagle has served for over four decades within the United Nations, taking on very senior roles. She is currently special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on system-wide Implementation of chief executive board decisions. Prior to her current role, Beagle was U.N. under-secretary-general for management strategy, policy, and compliance, during which time she was also given the job to lead a high-level task force on sexual harassment. Before that, she was deputy executive director at UNAIDS. Her appointment to a higher-level position within the U.N. attracted controversy. The promotion came while she was under investigation for harassment claims by former UNAIDS staffer. ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross has a new director-general: Robert Mardini. He begins in his new role in March 2020. Mardini is currently ICRC’s head of delegation and permanent observer to the U.N. in New York. He has been with ICRC for over two decades. Canada Karina Gould is Canada’s new minister of international development. Previously she was Canada’s minister of democratic institutions and served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of international development and la francophonie between 2015 and 2017. Her profile describes Gould as “an advocate for women’s issues and affordable housing.” Norwegian development agency Bård Vegar Solhjell, secretary-general of World Wildlife Fund Norway, is the new director-general of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation or Norad. He comes to the job in the middle of an aid reform. According to the announcement, Norad “will be given responsibility for much of Norway’s aid management” starting in 2020. Rockefeller Foundation Two women leaders have joined the Rockefeller Foundation’s board of trustees: Agnes Binagwaho, vice-chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative of Partners In Health; and Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, co-founder of Sahel Consulting: Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. The two “have demonstrated and been recognized for their dedication and leadership in global health and agriculture, respectively, which are core areas of the Foundation’s work,” said board chair Richard Parsons in a news release. Comic Relief Alex Reid, head of global campaigns at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is leaving the charity to take on the job of CEO at U.K. charity Comic Relief. She starts in March 2020. Reid replaces Liz Warner, who left the organization in November. Ruth Davison, Comic Relief’s impact and investment executive director, will serve as interim CEO. Humentum Christine Sow has started in her new role as CEO of International development organization Humentum. Prior to her current position, Sow was with Palladium, an international consultancy firm, where she led the organization’s impact bond work and provided oversight on the organization’s health portfolio in more than 20 global and bilateral projects. Before Palladium, she served in numerous senior positions in some of the world’s biggest nonprofit organizations. United Nations U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed several individuals in key positions in November, including: • Mario Samaja of Italy, as U.N. resident coordinator in Paraguay. • Anriette Esterhuysen of South Africa, ‎as the new chair of the Internet Governance Forum’s Multi‑Stakeholder Advisory Group. • Ghada Fathi Waly of Egypt, as the new executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. • Kanni Wignaraja of Sri Lanka, as new assistant secretary‑general and director of the U.N. Development Programme Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific World Food Programme Barron Segar is moving from UNICEF to the World Food Program starting in January 2020. He will be the new president and CEO of World Food Program USA effective Jan. 21, 2020. Stockholm International Water Institute The Stockholm International Water Institute has appointed Karin Gardes as its new chief operating officer. Gardes will start in her new role in February 2020. World Food Prize Foundation Barbara Stinson will lead the World Food Prize Foundation starting in January 2020 as its new president, only the second person to fill in the position since 1986. She was previously with nonprofit Meridian Institute, where she served for 22 years, according to a news release. Stinson currently serves as a board member in several organizations, including in two promoting entrepreneurship among women.